Explore Cagayan de Oro – City of Golden Friendship

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Once again the city of Golden Friendship will be celebrating its annual fiesta celebration in honor of patron saint St. Augustine. The Kagay-an Festival 2010’s list of activities for August have already been rolled out in coordination with Promote CDO Foundation, Inc. and other partner organizations.

Another “old but new” salon has opened this month. It’s old because it’s the X Salon most Kagay-anon men and women loved. It’s new because it’s now located at the 2nd floor of TILT building with a new name–U Salon.

U Salon’s building is still located along Velez-Hayes Street. As a matter of fact, it’s just beside its old location now leased by a Christian church, Victory Christian Fellowship.

The new place of one of Cagayan De Oro’s salons boasts of a more homy atmosphere. Their regular haircut is still at P180 and that still comes with shampoo treatment.

The rafting company just recently opened their one-stop-shop along A. Velez Street beside Maxi’s Bar. Bugsay River Rafting offers beginner and advanced courses to clients who want to experience the great rapids. The beginners course, runs on a three-hour downstream trip on a 12-kilometer river stretch with 14 class two rapids and scenic views, while the advanced course runs on a 16-kilometer river stretch with 21 class two-three rapids that run approximately five hours down the river. They also have trained professional river guides skilled in handling extreme courses; have knowledge and deep experience in survival and basic life support. Equipped with class A rafting gears using Sotar Brand rafts, Bugsay River Rafting will surely make your river rafting experience a safe and memorable one.

Cagayan De Oro’s very own fashion designer Gil Macaibay staged a fashion show last June 27 entitled Gil Goes Mediaeval. A number of local models took the runway to showcase Macaibay’s periodic designs at the LimKetKai Rotonda.

The designs were inspired by the Middle ages clothing line. Locals crowded Limketkai Mall at that day supporting their friends who took the runway and some were just really interested at the event itself.

Indeed, Cagayan De Oro has been progressing not only in its economy but even in the art department, specifically fashion.

The city of Cagayan de Oro will now have its very own Starbucks Coffee Shop, one of the famous coffeehouse chains in the world. We’ve already posted a couple of months ago that the company which manages Starbucks coffee shops in the Philippines has already started looking for potential employees who will be working in their soon-to-open Starbucks coffee shop here in CDO. The world famous coffeehouse chain, originally based in Seattle, Washington U.S.A is already planning to add more branches in the growing commercial areas in the Visayas and Mindanao. Now that the Rustan Coffee Corporation, the company who runs a lot of Starbucks branches in the Philippines, has already started the development of their first Mindanao coffee shop branch, we the Kagay-anon’s are expecting that by the end of this year we will already have our very first Starbucks serving freshly brewed coffees here in the city of Golden Friendship.